Looking at the harmonious small mountain village, I couldn't help but question Yang Hong: "This... is this the very powerful Huanglong Mountain Village you said?"

Yang Hong was speechless. Why did the Huanglong Mountain Village become like this? Last time he brought troops to encircle and suppress the enemy, he saw the mountain full of vicious bandits. They held sharp spears and bows and arrows, occupying some very important defensive positions on the mountain, and were filled with rolling wood and rocks, repelling his attacks on the mountain many times.

Yang Hong quickly sank his face and said seriously: "Sir Lian, don't underestimate this copycat. This is a trick used by Zhu Ba's cunning thief. It shows the enemy as weak, and there is a hidden evil intention. It is called..."

"Hey!" Yang Hong's words were interrupted by practicing state affairs, and snorted coldly: "Military Art? You are a rough man, what kind of military art are you talking about with me? Don't think that we scholars have never read military books. I can recite the thirty-six strategies more smoothly than you. Is the enemy showing that the enemy is weak? I can see it with my own eyes and think with my own mind!"

Why is he so rude to Yang Hong when practicing state affairs? This has to start with his official position. His official position is called the Inspector Censor. As mentioned earlier, this is a position specifically used to supervise all officials. His job is to walk around and see what the officials have done with his own eyes.

People who are such officials have one characteristic, that is, they are very distrustful of officials who are not their own faction! In the eyes of these civil officials who call themselves "clean and honest", all the officials in the world are corrupt officials, and only they are pure! All the officials in the world say lies, and only what they think is true. Don't laugh at the officials, there are many such people. Not only do they practice state affairs, but they also have this virtue. They think that others are **, and only they are smart people! Such people are typical of reading **, otherwise how can they say that scholars ruin the country?

After hearing this state affairs, Yang Hong wanted to punch him in the face, but he was not as brave as he dared to beat the inspector and censor, so he had to suppress his anger and said in a deep voice: "Zhu Ba is really a cunning thief, don't be deceived by him."

"Don't you just want to praise him very well to hide your failure last time? Hum!" Lian State Affairs snorted coldly: "Stop talking nonsense. I am the inspector of the censor. The emperor appointed me this position because I have a pair of sharp eyes."

Lian State Affairs no longer paid attention to Yang Hong and walked towards the village.

In fact, there was a thief nest in front of him, and the scholar was brave enough to walk straight to the mountain road without any hesitation. On the contrary, Yang Hong, when he stepped on the first step on the mountain road, his heart skipped a beat. The last time he came, it was not easy to walk on this mountain road. It was piled up with the lives of soldiers, and then he walked up. When he was halfway up the mountain, he was smashed by a rolling wooden stone.

But after looking at the peaceful and peaceful appearance on the mountain, he was a little doubtful that he had really seen a ghost, so he turned his head and searched carefully on both sides of the road. Finally, he discovered traces left by the impact of several heavy objects on the rocks. Obviously, the battle a few years ago had left an eternal mark on these rocks and would not completely disappear with the passage of time.

"I read it right! I remember it right! Zhu Ba must be a powerful guy. Huanglong Mountain Village looks like this now just a false appearance." Yang Hong muttered a few words in his heart.

There were more than fifty people in their group, including civil servants, military officers, and a group of soldiers in brightly decorated clothes and armor. As soon as they walked up the mountain road, they immediately attracted the attention of the sentries on the mountain. A sentry with a thick wooden stick shouted loudly: "Ah, the officers and soldiers of the court are here... The officers and soldiers are here to encircle us..."

The sentry roared and knocked on the clapper, and the bamboo clapper made an empty sound, echoing throughout the hillside.

Lian State Affairs raised his head and watched the reaction of this village. After hearing the sound of the clapper, the bandits on the top of the mountain began to get nervous. Many people ran on the top of the mountain, including men, women, old and young... These people ran back to the cave, and ran out with thick wooden sticks, hoes, manure forks and other things.

It is obvious that these people have not been trained. Their movements are very fast and their steps are very chaotic. The predecessors squeeze with their descendants and push them to each other. From time to time, some people fall to the ground. The people next to them quickly help the fallen up. Then a large group of messy bandits rushed to the gate of the village and stood in a pile.

Practicing state affairs immediately sneered: Isn’t this a common reaction from bandits when they see officers and soldiers?

When he was recruiting Wang Zuogu, he saw Wang Zuogu's army crowded like this. When he was recruiting and lighting the lamp, he also saw bandits crowded together like this. When he was recruiting Shen Yikui, he also saw this scene.

"Yang Qianhu, you said this copycat is very powerful, hey..." Lian Guoshi sneered: "I think... it's no different from other bandits, just a group of mobs."

Yang Hong shook his head: "Mr. Lian must not underestimate the enemy. Zhu Ba must have deliberately arranged some villagers to pretend to be soldiers. The real elite soldiers in the village must have been hiding now and they have not come out."

"Hmph!" Jian State Affairs did not hear Yang Hong's words at all. He raised his head and shouted at the bandits who were "opening their teeth and claws" on the top of the mountain, "Don't you put down your weapons yet? I am the inspector of the censor and the state affairs. I will give you a chance to reform and ask the leader of the mountain village to come out to see me."

The words of practice national affairs are really upright and can't tell any fault. His waist is straight and his eyes are flashing. Although scholars have many problems, they are not pretending to be upright. He is sure to be a person with integrity. The so-called "don't do bad things in his life, and they are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night." He sits upright, acts upright, and takes the emperor's order to recruit thieves. In his own opinion, this is such a glorious task, so the energy in this is really full of things and cannot be faked.

The bandits on the top of the mountain were forced by his righteousness and took a neat step back half a step.

I felt complacent in my heart when I practiced state affairs. Humph, we have a strong and strong heart, and the evil demons and heretics can only retreat.

There was a slight riot in the bandit group. For a while, no one dared to come out to practice state affairs, nor did anyone throw stones or archery on the mountain road. The group of people in the state affairs practiced, just walked openly and stood in front of the gate of the mountain village, standing in front of a group of bandits.

Living state affairs couldn't help but turn around and snorted coldly at Yang Hong behind him: "You reported that you had lost nearly a hundred soldiers to attack this mountain road. Look, I don't need a soldier or a soldier, I just need to be up with righteousness."

Yang Hong was really unable to argue, so he had to curse in his heart: You came as an envoy, and Zhu Ba deliberately let you go up the mountain. Do you really think that you can get up with righteousness? Fool! If you have the ability, you come with the army and see if you can still walk so easily.

At this time, a rush of bandits occurred. The crowd separated from both sides, and a young man came out in the middle. Yang Hong looked closely and still recognized that this was the Baishui Zhu Ba who had fought with him. He saw that Zhu Ba was wearing a coarse linen dress, and his clothes were washed clean, but the texture was not very good. He was not wearing gold and silver, so he did not show any nobleness.

Yang Hong was secretly alert in his heart. You should know that he had seen many leaders of bandits. These leaders generally gained a lot of benefits by burning, killing and looting them by their subordinates, so they were always wearing high-end clothes that they stolen, and were covered with gold and jade on their clothes and belts, for fear that they would be mixed with ordinary minions. But Zhu Ba was different. He had been king for many years, but he was still so simple. It can be seen that he was a pragmatic person. Such people are generally good at buying people's hearts and have great ambitions, which is extremely difficult to deal with.

But his view on practicing state affairs was different from that of Yang Hong. When he saw Zhu Ba's proficiency, he sneered in his heart: Humph, he is another ordinary person, a rough man who has no studies.

The two had different opinions, so their eyes were naturally different. The subtle expression changes all fell into Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. He felt like a mirror in his heart, and soon he figured out the different tone of thinking between the two civil and military officials. Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Yang Hong, but bowed to Lian Guoshi and said in a voice pretending to be surprised: "Are you here to comfort us?"

"That's right, I am responsible for the emperor's order, and I will give you a chance to reform myself!" Jian State Affairs took the airs.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang burst into tears: "We... finally came to the envoys of the court... The thousands of brothers in our village have long had good intentions and wanted to surrender to the court, but they have no way to do good!"

The large groups of bandits behind Zhu Yuanzhang threw away their weapons at the same time, knelt down together, kowtowed to the sky and said, "The sky has eyes, the court has finally come to comfort us, we can be good people again..."

After a huh, the mountain was full of bandits.

When practicing state affairs, I didn’t feel very surprised when I saw this scene. Since the rain in spring, many bandits have surrendered to the government. When they saw the court’s envoys, most of them took such a gesture.

I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in my heart. Although he was upright, he was actually a little worried. If these bandits were really vicious and as difficult as Yang Hong said, and could not help him, he might lose his life. Now it's so smooth, it's really God bless the Ming Dynasty and his life.

"Since you have a good intention, that's great..." Jian State Affairs said in a tone: "You won't come out of the mountain and go to the city to be slaughtered?"

"About this..." Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity to welcome guests into the mountain gate with both hands and said, "Please ask the Censor to come to the village for a rest... Let's talk in detail..."

"Okay!" I didn't expect to say anything casually, so I told the bandits to go down the mountain. Generally speaking, the thieves were entrusted with small conditions. This is a reasonable matter. Since the thieves are willing to talk about it, it would be better than nothing. Practicing state affairs was as arrogant as an envoy of the court, walking in a square step, following Zhu Yuanzhang, and walking into the village.
Chapter completed!